10-letter words containing c, o, r, a
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- curvacious — pleasingly curved
- custom car — a car that is built to the buyer's own specifications
- cut across — If an issue or problem cuts across the division between two or more groups of people, it affects or matters to people in all the groups.
- cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyathiform — shaped like a drinking glass or cup, with a wider upper section
- cyclograph — Arcograph.
- cycloramas — Plural form of cyclorama.
- cycloramic — a pictorial representation, in perspective, of a landscape, battle, etc., on the inner wall of a cylindrical room or hall, viewed by spectators occupying a position in the center.
- cyclosarin — Cyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate, an extremely toxic substance used as a chemical weapon.
- cystocarps — Plural form of cystocarp.
- cystograms — Plural form of cystogram.
- czarocracy — A Government headed by a czar or a similar autocrat.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dancefloor — Alternative form of dance floor.
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- deaconries — Plural form of deaconry.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- declarator — an action seeking to have some right, status, etc, judicially ascertained
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decollator — (computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper.
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decolorate — to change or fade in colour
- decontract — (ambitransitive) To expand from a contracted state.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- decorators — Plural form of decorator.
- decreation — Destruction.
- dedecorate — (obsolete, transitive) To bring to shame; to disgrace.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- defalcator — A defaulter or embezzler.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- demarcator — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- detractors — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.